For the next couple days, I’ll be attending a seminar on how changes in the media landscape are affecting diplomacy. The event, the Milton Wolf Seminar, will include a series of panels and discussions with leaders at international NGOs, journalists, and members of the diplomatic community — a group I’m excited to meet and interview [...]

Our friends at Nieman Reports have put together their new edition, and it focuses on an important issue: the interaction between journalists and trauma. How can reporters respectfully cover communities that have been through devastating circumstances? How can they make sure their stories reach an audience overburdened by sad tales? And how do journalists themselves [...]

The new issue of our older sibling Nieman Reports is out. While it isn’t as tied to the Lab’s subject matter as the last issue was, it does feature some great reporting about Iran, and that includes pieces about how Iranian issues are covered online.
There’s a piece by Kelly Golnoush Niknejad, founder of Tehran [...]

At more than 24,000 words, Steve Fainaru’s Pulitzer-winning reports on American mercenaries in Iraq were nearly as long as Heart of Darkness and just as eerie. But spread over nine installments in nine months, the Washington Post series could hardly be read as literature.
Later this month, a coalition of news organizations — including the Post, [...]

As we mentioned previously, it’s time for a new issue of Nieman Reports, our sister quarterly here at the Nieman Foundation. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve given you previews of two of its stories: Joel Kramer on lessons from running MinnPost and Margaret Wolf Freivogel on her startup, the St. Louis Beacon.
The entire [...]

Ethan Zuckerman — the gentleman we posted about earlier today — has written a smart piece for the next issue of Nieman Reports on the importance of serendipity in news consumption. As he puts it:
The number of choices an engaged citizen has for reading or watching news has exploded in recent years, and this increase [...]

Jim Gannon is, in many ways, a model new-school journalist. After decades in newspapers (including high-level posts at the Des Moines Register and the Detroit News), he decided in retirement that the area around his home in Virginia wasn’t getting enough news coverage. So he used the instant-publishing powers of the Internet to start The [...]

Next up in our series of videos from the Nieman Foundation’s 70th convocation is Melissa Ludtke, my colleague here at the foundation and editor of Nieman Reports. She talks about the value of editing online and recounts an exchange from a few years back she had with Jeff Jarvis.
The fall 2008 issue of Nieman [...]

Mark Fitzgerald and Jennifer Saba of Editor & Publisher report that Goldman Sachs has laid off its media analyst, Peter Appert, as part of a 10% reduction in staff at the still-standing investment bank. That’s a shame, because Appert was among the few analysts who consistently criticized media companies for destroying their product by firing [...]